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Battleship Row during the attack on Pearl Harbor, 1941
Photo Credit: U.S. Navy Photograph taken from a Japanese plane during the torpedo attack on ships moored on both sides of Ford Island shortly after the beginning of the Pearl Harbor attack. View looks...
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Santa riding on top of a Essex car, 1927
Photo Credit: Free Library of Philadelphia A unique Christmas Essex automobile with Santa Claus riding on top brought joy to San Francisco kids in 1927.
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Christmas Tree Lane in Altadena, CA
In 1885, real estate magnate John P. Woodbury of the Woodbury Family, the founders of Altadena, California – planted 134 deodar trees as a grand mile-long driveway entrance to the mansion he would...
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Contest for best Christmas hair, 1953
Photo Credit: USC Libraries Contest for best Christmas hairstyle turned out some great hair designs on December 8, 1953. First place winner, Joyce Morgan (left), with a mobile ‘shooting star’ hairdo...
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Serving coffee after the Long Beach earthquake, 1933
Women serving coffee to policemen at an outdoor booth after the Long Beach earthquake in March 1933. The Long Beach earthquake of 1933 took place on March 10, with a magnitude of 6.4, causing...
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Snow shoe race, 1895
Photo Credit: Meriam Library, California State University, Chico Group photograph of men, young men, and boys most likely participating in a snow shoe race as well as skiing in the snow in either La...
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Decorating a Valentine Trees, 1958
Photo Credit: Los Angeles Public Library Two women are decorating Valentine trees with bright red hearts and cavorting cupids; that will serve as the theme for the Sierra-Cahuenga District junior...
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Valentine jig, 1965
Photo Credit: Los Angeles Public Library Clad in Scottish kilts and accompanied by their Valentines, members of the Buoys and Gulls Mariners Club of the Kirk o’ the Valley Presbyterian Church, are...
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Reagan laughs at Queen Elizabeth II’s joke, 1983
President Reagan laughs following a joke by the straight-faced Queen Elizabeth II, who commented on the lousy California weather she has experienced since her arrival to the States. The British Queen...
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Inspecting spring decor for party, 1954
Photo Credit: Los Angeles Public Library Mrs. Ovid Sailors, left, chairman of Chandler School PTA’s spring style show, inspects time-worthy decorations for the event with Mrs. Fred Lentz and Mrs....
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Assembling Easter decorations for luncheon, 1959
Photo Credit: Los Angeles Public Library Mmes. Stanley Meyer, Joseph Lo Presti and Alan Gordon (from left) assemble Easter decorations for Egremont Mothers’ Club fashion luncheon in Sportsmen’s Lodge...
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Navy baker baking bread, 1940s
Photo Credit: National Archives A Navy baker and assistant removing loaves of bread from oven at the Naval Training Center San Diego CA, ca. 1940s.
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Truman eating Chinese food in Chinatown, 1942
Photo Credit: National Archives Albert Kam Chow (known as the unofficial mayor of San Francisco’s Chinatown), Senator Harry S. Truman (second from left), and unidentified men eating with chopsticks at...
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Delivering milk during the 1938 Los Angeles Flood
Photo Credit: LA Times Milkman Ray J. Henville secured himself a boat and boatman and made all deliveries on time and on doorstep on March 3. 1938. The Los Angeles flood of 1938 was one of the largest...
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Odd Contests: Queen of the Vineyards, 1930
Celebrating the harvesting of California’s 1930 grape crop, one of the largest on record, society girls of Burbank staged their open-air festival in the famous McClure Vineyards. During the festival,...
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Members of the Women’s Safety Traffic Reserve, 1943
Photo Credit: Ann Rosener/Office of War Information Mrs. E.K. Sabel and Mrs. J.R. Harris, members of the Women’s Safety Traffic Reserve in Oakland, California, are among the many mothers who are...
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Costumed actors preparing for Disneyland’s grand opening, 1955
Costumed actors prepare for the parade celebrating the opening of Disneyland on July 17, 1955.
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Ice Block Races, 1931
Ice block races was one of Venice’s unusual events during the 1930’s.
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Workers complete the catwalks for the Golden Gate Bridge, 1935
Workers complete the catwalks for the Golden Gate Bridge, hundreds of feet above the strait below, prior to spinning the bridge cables during construction on October 25, 1935.
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Women representing CA, WY, and MT march in a suffrage parade, 1915
More than 25,000 women marched in New York City on October 23, 1915, advocating equal suffrage. Here, representatives of California, Wyoming, and Montana—three of the U.S. states in which women had...
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